Wildfires

This article is important to me because my uncle is currently living in the thick of the wildfires.  He lives in an RV in a forest and earlier this summer when he was visiting Wisconsin, the fires got within a mile from his RV and there was nothing he could do to save all of his belongings. 

This particular article said that these new fires were started by a lightning strike on September 9th, 2012 so there was nothing in particular that we as humans could have done to prevent this fire (unless you want to go wild and say by using fossil fuels we have causes global change and so on and so forth ...). 

My uncle and his friends are experienced dirt bikers, so these fires have destroyed or are destroying their favorite places to bike as well as their property and belongings.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120921142832.htm